17 October 2017

You’re at Risk From a KRACK Attack: Everything You Need to Know


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We’ve known public Wi-Fi networks are vulnerable to hacking for a long time. But according to experts, the situation is a whole lot worse than anyone imagined. It’s now believed that every Wi-Fi network in the world is vulnerable — or at least, every Wi-Fi network that uses either WPA or WPA-2 encryption, which is virtually all of them. The cause? An exploit called “KRACK,” which is short for Key Reinstallation Attacks. But what exactly is a KRACK attack? How does it work? Can it be fixed? And what can you do about it in the short-term? Let’s take a...

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